Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus / drollery
FEEDBACK

drollery

See definition of drollery on Dictionary.com

synonyms for drollery

  • buffoonery
  • facetiousness
  • foolishness
  • jest
  • pleasantry
  • raillery
  • waggery
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy

antonyms for drollery

MOST RELEVANT
  • seriousness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

TRY USING drollery

See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.

Characters: 0/140
QUIZ
This Climate Change Vocab Quiz Is Heating Things Up
START THE QUIZ

How to use drollery in a sentence

No stanza of the poem is more replete than this with a vein of painfully sarcastic drollery.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN
The pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
There was a kind of drollery about Mrs. Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTH
All of which drollery concluded with his announcement of place and date of his lecture, with still further gaiety at the end.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
He seemed to have a naïve spirit of drollery, and he related quite amusingly an experience of his railway journey.
THROUGH THE WALLCLEVELAND MOFFETT
How ready each to take the jest against himself, and even heighten its flavor by some new touch of drollery.
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. I (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVER
Evidently the serious-talking young radical had a vein of drollery under his thoughtful exterior.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHY
This idea is developed with more drollery than delicacy in the tale in question.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. IX.--FEBRUARY, 1851.--VOL. II.VARIOUS
But, notwithstanding his rather clumsy drollery, she soon discovered a greatness in the man for which she was wholly unprepared.
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, VOLUME II (OF 3)ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYER
Jerry delivered her polite emendation with irresistible drollery.
MARJORIE DEAN, HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORPAULINE LESTER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
Choose the synonym for future
capacitor
lightning
DeLorean

WORDS RELATED TO DROLLERY

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.